I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.